reddeadvirtuoso: (Jade: Chill in LOFAC)
Jade Strider ([personal profile] reddeadvirtuoso) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-10-03 10:27 pm

002 || Really Destitute Vacation

Characters: Jade Strider, and anyone she is likely to bother. Which is everyone.
Setting: The Cafeteria, the Music Room and the Morgue during the day, and nondescript vague locations at night.
Format: Started in action, but it doesn't make a difference to me. Whatever suits your fancy!
Summary: Now that all that shadow, body-swap and no food nonsense is out of the way, Jade's going back to exploring the Tower, and actually trying to shoot her gun. And actually getting into a lot of stupid trouble again. It's the perfect time to yell at her!
Warnings: Jade being stupid, getting stuck in the morgue, the tower at nighttime, gratuitous Beatles jams


[Cafeteria - Floor One]
[Jade was not a hunter, nor a gatherer. The last week of September was pretty difficult for a 13 year old that couldn't quite fend for herself and refused to admit she was having any problems. Thankfully it was only a week, and once October hit, there was food! Which meant she was currently helping herself to a big old breakfast of pumpkin...stuff, in the cafeteria. There was plenty on the table, so there was probably enough for someone else if they wanted something, while she gorged her face.]


[Morgue - Floor 26]
[There was nothing that suspicious here. Though that...might have, been the most suspicious part. Jade was a small kid, and she was stupidly curious and adventurous (it happened when one of your ecto-fathers was a hardened island explorer), so she was in the process of exploring eeeevery little bit of the tower. Which had apparently included the body drawers.

So someone might have come around, rather spotting a small, red-clad child crawling into one of the drawers, or they might hear some banging from one of the closed ones if someone gets close by....]



[Music Room]
[She hadn't gotten to bring her own guitar to the tower, so the music room was where Jade was usually found, aside from the media room. You'd practicaly think she'd moved in there at least; she was currently seated on the seat of the grand organ, with another stool pulled up to use as a foot rest as she used the organ as a back rest and was currently playing the intro from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band, and other such Beatles classics.

Come on, what did you really expect.]



[Anywhere in the Tower, Nighttime]
[There was normal exploration, saved for the daytime, and there was working on the fact that Jade had such bad aim it was bullshit. It was probably really stupid to be out at night, but that's where she was anywhere around the Tower, with her rifle in hand and attacking any monsters that creeped by. It was much easier to find them at night after all, and they put up more of a fight.

This is probably a really dumb idea. The weird part was, she was even still wearing her shades when it wasn't complete and total darkness-- they were prescription sunglasses after all. If it was absolutely darkness though, then it didn't really matter, and she might have had them propped up on the top of her head, giving you a glimpse of her weirdly red eyes.]



[Room 1-20 - Locked to England]

[Jade had a fashion sense enough not to wear her stupid God Tier PJs, so she was certainly bothered by the fact that her scarf was still a tattered (though not bloody at least) mess since Sburb.

She had to go back in the network and find the guy who she had asked to fix it, but she did track down his name, and found his name on one of the dorm rooms. Instead of actually wearing the scarf for now, she held it in one hand and knocked on his door with the other, hoping he and only he was around 'cause damn this was gonna be kind of embarrassing.]
chronomancer: (♒ the show must go on yeah)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-11-25 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's pretty neat.

[Eridan offers her a half smile, then shrugs at the question.]

Walking.

[Did you miss the deadpan? The deadpan is back.]

Lots of walking. I didn't live that deep into the desert, small mercies, but it was still about two days and two nights walking to get to the steep and out of the sand. Not too bad if you can walk in plain sunlight without literally burning to death, but not a lot of people were too keen to visit.

[He snorted.]

The neighbors weren't really friendly, either. So yeah. A few days walk out into actual inhabited land, and then a few more to reach her forest. All in all it wasn't all that bad. And hey, good for supply runs.
chronomancer: (♒ I'm aching to be free)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-11-25 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Eridan shrugs carefully.]

Originally I went out to get supplies. You know ammo for my rifles, clothes, movies. Sometimes food that didn't rot on the way back. After Fef and I... you know. It didn't seem like that big of a detour.
chronomancer: (♒ round the corner now)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-11-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Subdued.]

I try not to.

[But it's kind of hard to talk about the past when your entire past revolved around the one person you're trying not to talk about.]

Sorry.
chronomancer: (♒ round the corner now)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-10 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He offers a small smile, trying to cheer up.]

The sad thing is I think she put up with my shit far more than I put up with hers.

[So he shrugs again, looking away.]

Don't really have the greatest record as anyone's moirail, I guess. Sorry.
chronomancer: (♒ to take it anymore)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-10 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
...you're just paving the road for me to start with sappy one-liners, hon.

[But he offers her a small, sincere smile and a bump of his arm against her shoulder, playfully.]
chronomancer: (♒ you can't break that)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-10 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, all my hopes and dreams, shattered at your feet, Strider, however will I live on now?

[Yeah, he's deadpanning for all he's worth.]
chronomancer: (♒ the show must go on yeah)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-15 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Deadpan.]

I fear for my diamond like I've never feared before.
chronomancer: (♒ to take it anymore)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-15 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Jade, oh. Hold me, hon, I feel a swoon coming.

[Yup, still deadpanning. But hey, he's playing along. ...in a deadpan way.]
chronomancer: (♒ the show must go on)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-16 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, my savior, I am not worthy.
chronomancer: (♒ does anybody really know)

[personal profile] chronomancer 2012-12-16 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'll treasure the memory forever.